Comment & Opinion

Waste of the Day: A non-profit CEO’s profits
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 14, 2026
A Los Angeles homeless nonprofit funded by taxpayers paid $1.7 million to for-profit companies owned by its CEO, according to an investigation by the ...
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Will we see ICE body cam footage?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 14, 2026
The good news is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to provide officers with body cameras over the next few months. The bad news is...
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The back-to-school blues are here — for parents
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ABBY McCLOSKEY Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 14, 2026
DALLAS (TNS) — School doesn’t begin again for a few weeks. But you wouldn’t know it looking at my phone. These days, returning to the classroom seems ...
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Obamacare is pricing out Pennsylvania’s middle class
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By ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBAS RealClearPennsylvania 
Aug 14, 2026
Nearly 40,000 Pennsylvanians dropped their Obamacare coverage this year. The shocker is that the largest drop in coverage came from middle-income fami...
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Making concessions on big-ticket buys
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 13, 2026
America’s affordability divide is increasingly visible in Americans’ biggest purchases. The wealthy may be doing just fine. It’s the Americans below t...
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Gen Z’s love of going to the movies
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 13, 2026
Movies are back! (Again.) There have been stories in the recent past about how going to the movies was becoming a thing again — see “Barbenheimer” in ...
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New FEMA leader must tackle mistrust
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 13, 2026
Almost 15 months after Cameron Hamilton was fired for defending FEMA during a congressional hearing, the U.S. Senate confirmed him as FEMA's top admin...
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Waste of the Day: NY museum timesheets are forged
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 12, 2026
The New York State Museum receives annual grant funding from the U.S. Geological Survey’s STATEMAP program, part of the Department of the Interior, wh...
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Navigating the obscene, but not illegal, in modern politics
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By CHRISTOPHER NICHOLAS RealClearPennsylvania 
Aug 12, 2026
When calling on my more than four decades in the campaign trenches to help decipher it to the outside world, I’ve settled on this basic premise: neith...
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Empty pews, regulatory zoos and populist views
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By PATRICK A. McLAUGHLIN Tribune News Service 
Aug 11, 2026
A quarter-millennium into the American experiment, some of our skepticism of big government has given way to populism and astounding numbers of regula...
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No one who works full time should be on Medicaid
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By KATHRYN ANNE EDWARDS Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 11, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — There are a lot of jobs in the U.S. economy that pay miserably low wages. And there are a lot that offer a reasonable hourly rate but...
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The era of cover-ups
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Aug 10, 2026
There’s no mystery in why Dr. Anthony Fauci strove to silence discussion about the origins of COVID-19 — he was in full CYA mode because the agency he...
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Pa. ending mandatory life for felony murder creates a mess
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By OLIVER BATEMAN RealClearPennsylvania 
Aug 10, 2026
In late July, Pennsylvania missed a deadline to replace a sentencing law the state’s highest court struck down, and roughly 1,100 inmates may now ask ...
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Waste of the Day: SNAP for lottery winners
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 07, 2026
Maryland gave at least $319,000 in food stamps and other federally-funded benefits to prisoners, dead people, and a $2 million lottery winner. A July ...
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Another far-left candidate to haunt Dems?
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By JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Aug 07, 2026
BOSTON (TNS) — The narrower than expected victory by the far left Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, could backfire on the party...
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